How about chips harvest all that air in the bag? Oh wait, not those kinda chips …
I suppose it’s a better idea than I initially gave it credit for. It’s a new type of thermocouple, and processors do run at a fairly high heat gradient compared to ambient temperatures.
Good luck with the actual implementation though!
And no word on efficiency in the article. I guess it won’t be better than other thermo-electric devices they are 5-8% efficient.
You can always attach a sterling engine to the waste heat of a system, its just diminishing returns.
Thats a very good point and makes me think about how funny it is that we are collecting energy through various forms of convoluted systems…I wonder if we can find some way to harness energy more directly. Thats probably more like renewable energy and nuclear though if I had to guess, which is also sorta convoluted because you putting effort into storage instead of ways of converting the energy into something useful.
